Last weekend, we travelled up to Milwaukee, Wisconsin – a holiday gift trip for my boyfriend to see the Milwaukee Admirals (the Nashville Predators’ AHL team) in a two-night stand. It’s not your typical vacation locale, but Josh and I were both really excited to visit Milwaukee and the closer the trip got, the more we started to crave authentic cheese curds, beer and pretzels.

The thing about hustling on passion projects is that all passion burns out after a while. I traveled with a friend back to Costa Rica this year to take a break and refocus — back to the mostly sunny beach town of Tamarindo on the Pacific Coast for two-weeks of what Theroux would probably call a “superior and safe holiday” but what my not-so-adventurous friends might call “exotic world travel.” In reality, it was a bit of both – the photo highlights of which are just beyond the jump.